blocking the facebook like button

ie9 and tracking protection lists

At my work we have a firewall device which will automatically cause a PDF to come up (when a person is using IE9) with the company's internet usage policy if the person goes to a website that has a facebook like button on it. Unfortunatly these days so many websites have like buttons on them, everything from weather and news sites, to sites with coupons on them. Where I'm at we really need people to be able to go online and do reasearch for addresses, and news articles, etc.., but don't want people wasting a lot of time on facebook, hence why our company firewall block's facebook, but getting a copy of the company usage policy when trying to check the weather is a bit excessive.
So to block the facebook like button on sites (so that it doesn't trigger our firewall device, but you could do it to protect your the privacy of those in your company), I created this very easy to use tracking protecting list loading page for the employees to use (unfortunatly each user has to do it).

the page for people to use
The tracking protection list it loads

ps. Yes I know IE sucks, but for what most of the people at work need, it works, and comes with windows, and my bosses handed down that we don't support firefox or chrome.

sources
Microsoft of Creating Tracking Protection Lists (where I got the loading code from)
More details on creating your own Tracking Protection lists (TPL)

firefox

If you want to do the same thing in firefox you can either use disconnect at https://disconnect.me/ or use noscript, and never allow facebook (of course then you can't use facebook iteself then).
if you wan't to be able to go to facebook though but block their tracking and like buttons when you go to other pages (and you have NoScript and don't want to install another addon like disconnect), you can add the following into the ABE tab's user section, in your noscript options:

# Allow Facebook scripts and objects to be included only
# from Facebook pages
Site .facebook.com .fbcdn.net .facebook.net
Accept from .facebook.com .fbcdn.net .facebook.net
Deny INCLUSION(SCRIPT, OBJ, SUBDOC)

details on NoScript ABE block